This prequel story to Survival Instincts finds Daniel Bennett serving hard time on the Holt penal station. Outed as a former cop, he doesn't stand a chance. His survival requires that he give up who he is - a good cop and honorable man - and become even more ruthless than the dregs of humanity that surround him. Instead, he attempts a precarious balancing act between Bennett the cop and Bennett the convict. But when an asteroid mining accident leaves him and two convicts adrift and short o...

Embark on a flight of discovery with ten stories from the fertile mind of M.E Owen, including:A group of extraterrestrials finds an exciting new venue for date night—Earth.A Seattle bar houses a clandestine interplanetary waystation nicknamed the "Vortex of Hell."An alien discovers that the small child of the powerful human she was sent to observe may hold the key to initiating peaceful relations.A generation ship's engineer wakes up as a clone o...

A docked cargo ship run by an autonomous, non-sentient AI refuses admittance and instead threatens an attack against Zion's neural net.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia, Far Trails' navigator/muscle Cray Solnik, and tech goddess Selma Zarvos, along with a cloned copy of Max—Zion's rogue AI—must find a way aboard, stop the shipboard AI, and figure out what the seventeen thousand not-quite-human life signatures in the holds are.They discover that the stakes for Zion ...

Non Plus Ultra is the first story in M.E Owen's exciting new Zion Station series.Old, poorly maintained, and sliding into decrepitude, Zion Station orbits a gas giant in a backwater of human space. Originally purposed for scientific research, and then as support for the methane mining industry, its scientists are long gone, and its transfer pods have been decommissioned.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia has enough on her plate dealing with rowdy gas miners on shore...

The Battle of Sea and Wind is a compact maritime adventure in which elemental forces become the chief antagonists: the sea rises, the wind presses its assault, and human courage is tested between them. Ballantyne's prose combines brisk narrative movement with the descriptive precision characteristic of Victorian nautical fiction, turning technical seamanship, peril, and providential reflection into a moral drama. In the broader context of nineteenth-century juvenile literature, the work be...

Space opera is more than just starships boldly going. It is also the grunt on the ground with the rifle, just trying to survive.Come explore seven new stories of the things we might find out there, the battles we might face, and the horrors we need to survive when the going gets dangerous.Boundary Shock Quarterly Issue 014: Space Marines

As leadership educators shift from teacher- to learner-centered environments, from hierarchical to shared responsibility for learning, and from absolute to constructed ways of knowing, a desire for new inclusive and creative pedagogies is also emerging. This text includes over 40 easy-to-follow modules related to women and leadership development crafted by experienced leadership educators and practitioners. Each module includes learning objectives, detailed instructions, and ideas for adap...

Join us for the next exciting issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly!We can make her better than she was. Or build a better one to replace him. What does it mean to be Sentient? Human? Or even alive?Fifteen stories and essays explore what it means to be sentient in the present and future tense in stories ranging from artificial lifeforms all the way down to the many ways humans might dream about improving themselves, when the future arrives tomorrow.Welcome to Boundary S...

Pulp. Freshly squeezed. Throwing it back to bad 30's and 40's tropes and archetypes. Lantern-jawed heroes. Femme fatales. Scantily-clad princesses. Scenery chewing villains. And Dr. Basil Exposition in a white coat.Join over a dozen of today's most exciting SF authors as they go old school with "Ray Guns and Space Babes."Be sure to pick up the other volumes in this series: Boundary Shock Quarterly and be on the lookout for Issue 007 coming soon. "Apocalypse Descending."

The world is ending.Right here.Right now.How?Why?What’s next?Join us to explore eighteen different interpretations of the end of the world, from the amazingly silly to the darkest nightfall.Be sure not to miss every issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly, available everywhere you get your books.

Medicine is on the verge of conquering disease and aging. Of making it possible to clone ourselves and make our children super beings.Or morlocks.What will the world be like when science conquers life itself?Join us as we explore all the possible futures of mankind.

Furs, Timber & Cowboys – 3 Classic Western Novels presents an intriguing tapestry of the American frontier, blending the raw vigor of the wilderness with the rugged reality of cowboy life. This anthology offers a diverse array of literary styles, from the vivid descriptions of untouched landscapes to the dynamic narratives of survival and adventure. The selection not only distinguishes itself by encapsulating the spirit of the Western genre but also by presenting a kaleidoscope of human ex...